Design Manager – Data Centre

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage data centre design from concept and feasibility through detailed design, tendering, and construction coordination.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary architecture, structural, MEP, ICT, life safety, infrastructure, and utility teams.
• Support the project manager on client communications, expectations, scope, schedule, and budget.
• Champion design excellence and innovation aligned with quality, digital, and sustainability standards.
• Promote digital design tools and technologies, including BIM, Revit, and digital twins.
• Manage project risks and design changes, and ensure timely approvals and documentation.
• Monitor project progress and performance against agreed objectives and deliverables.
• Contribute to proposals, presentations, and client engagement for future opportunities.
• Guide and mentor junior team members and facilitate coordination with subconsultants and subject matter experts.
• Coordinate with stakeholders, authorities, contractors, consultants, and other third parties.
• Support design assurance and technical governance; assist with approvals, permits, and stakeholder agreements.
• Review deliverables for adherence to quality standards and project requirements.

Qualifications and requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Engineering, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• At least 5 years of project or design management experience within a design practice.
• Strong track record managing complex multidisciplinary data centre projects through all design stages.
• Strong client-facing experience, preferably in a consultancy, engineering, or project delivery environment.
• Understanding of multidisciplinary coordination, project delivery methodologies, and regional authority standards.
• Proficiency in BIM and digital design tools such as Revit and Navisworks.
• Experience with a data centre-focused multinational design or engineering consultancy is highly desirable.

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